November 12, 2012
On the Edge of Utopianism
[Editors Note: This essay is part of BHL’s Symposium on Left-Libertarianism. Click on the link to see the other essays.] As Matt said in his post announcing this symposium, many of…
Author: Steve Horwitz
November 03, 2012
My Scholarly Papers on Private Sector Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Since what goes around comes around, my work from a few years back on the private sector response to Hurricane Katrina is of relevance again. Here are the two scholarly…
November 01, 2012
A Question for the Defenders of Anti-Gouging Laws
If you believe that it is a good thing to pass laws that prevent sellers of water or ice or generators from raising their prices after a natural disaster, are…
September 20, 2012
Gabriel Kolko on Hoover and the New Deal
The famed leftist historian Gabriel Kolko shares a number of thoughts on Hoover, FDR, and the New Deal over at Counterpunch in a piece called “The New Deal Illusion“. In…
September 05, 2012
How Empirical is Austrian Economics?
Because many of here at BHL have an interest in Austrian economics, and many of our commentators probably have an interest in criticizing it, or perhaps don’t know much about…
August 15, 2012
An Excellent Essay on Marriage Equality
My Facebook friend Helen Dale, a lawyer in Scotland, has written a very nice legal defense of marriage equality titled “A Plea in Law for Equal Marriage” that won first…